Stephane Boyeau Blog

There is a lot of angular dashboard seed projects out there. But they are stuffed with a lot of things that might be not necessary to start a project of your own. So I decided to do my own Angular dashboard lean seed project. This project was scaffolded with Angular CLI version 1.4.9. What’s included Angular 5+ & Typescript 2.6.2 Bootstrap …

The GPD Pocket is a small handheld device from the GPD company out of HK. Here is their web site: http://www.gpd.hk Indiegogo page: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/gpd-pocket-7-0-umpc-laptop-ubuntu-or-win-10-os-laptop–2#/ Official forum of the GPD: http://forum.gpd.hk/f7-gpd-pocket Official GPD firmware download page: http://www.gpd.hk/news.asp?id=1519&selectclassid=002002 Reddit page: https://www.reddit.com/r/GPDPocket/ Windows Downloads: Click here to download the Windows 10 OS firmware (You can click on “Valider et télécharger le fichier” to start the download) Click here to …

I wanted to be able to quickly see at any time the CPU load, Memory used, HD load, network etc … on my main home server. I wanted to have that constantly displayed on a screen on top of my server. Of course, one option would be to plug the monitor to the server and crack up a session to display …

I wrote this article as a reminder for myself. I’m using Ubuntu 16.04 server on both sides. I have a server, let’s call it Box1, with full (root file system) LVM encryption. It’s great as it protects my data but the problem is that it needs someone to input the password at boot to decrypt the LVM volume. If the server …

I use ownCloud on a daily basis. I have setup a server years ago, and all my digital life stays there instead of going onto those “I don’t know who, I don’t know where and what they do with it” servers of Dropbox, Google drive etc… Lately, I upgraded from ownCloud 8.0.4 to 8.1, followed all the necessary steps indicated in the …

If you built your own NAS with a PC, a Linux OS and some disks, you will need to monitor the health of your hard drives. Wouldn’t it be nice to know by advance if a hard disk will fail? Being proactive is essential here. And it also works if you only have a Linux workstation… For this, we will use the smartmontools …

Do you need your servers to communicate securely through the WAN or an unsecured LAN? Having some services communicating insecurely that you want to encapsulate in a VPN tunnel? Let’s see how we can have a setup using 2 servers. We could have more but… let’s keep it simple for now. General configuration Before we start, let’s name those 2 linux …

I created this guide for me to keep track of what I’m doing and I’m sure it can be of some help to some people. At this time, I didn’t find an up to date image of Ubuntu server 14.04.2 with WIFI on forums or downloads of Hardkernel site. I decided to create my own. Here is how… If you don’t want to go …